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that has been the story in the case of other state in america. we also have a situation where we are intercepting marijuana at the border, and yet at the same time there is people who are growing marijuana legally for sale to those who need it for medicinal purposes, and we have seen in california and other states widespread people who have illnesses that require the use of marijuana. so, the attorney general of the united states the day before yesterday -- or yesterday -- announced that they were going to try to adjust the war on drugs to the most serious drug crimes. one draws the conclusion that they are not going to pay much attention to minor crimes. there is also a problem we have today, and i always make up my mind on things, but half the people in prison today in the united states are on drug charges, and some on more minor charges than others, and there is such a thing as mandatory sentences which has caused dramatic overcrowding of prisons. federal courts have ordered california to reduce dramatically their prison population. this is re
that has been the story in the case of other state in america. we also have a situation where we are intercepting marijuana at the border, and yet at the same time there is people who are growing marijuana legally for sale to those who need it for medicinal purposes, and we have seen in california and other states widespread people who have illnesses that require the use of marijuana. so, the attorney general of the united states the day before yesterday -- or yesterday -- announced that they...
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if america takes its eye, if america takes its eyes off the middle east, then there will be a resurgence of al-qaeda and all its affiliates and more menacing than ever we have seen. our concerns with the consequences of terrorists have, that having terrorists next door shape our views about syria. for americans, syria is more than 5,000 miles away. for us, syria is right on our doorstep. our border with syria is long and, therefore, we are deeply concerned about the ability of terrorists to use and to cross these borders. and just that is why we are participating in the surge of a political solution in syria that will reduce the violence and diminish the rule of the extremists. it's not easy, these political solutions, as we see the balance of forces moving this way and another. but that is one of the viable options for the people of syria. and only the syrian people can decide and determine their future. iraq was at the table during geneva i talks and, in fact, the final communique that was produced by the meeting had strong iraqi input in even the language that was adopted by all the p
if america takes its eye, if america takes its eyes off the middle east, then there will be a resurgence of al-qaeda and all its affiliates and more menacing than ever we have seen. our concerns with the consequences of terrorists have, that having terrorists next door shape our views about syria. for americans, syria is more than 5,000 miles away. for us, syria is right on our doorstep. our border with syria is long and, therefore, we are deeply concerned about the ability of terrorists to use...
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paul ryan ran for vice president of the united states of america. i did everything i could so he could never achieve that goal. he did everything he could so that i would never be in the majority in the house of representatives. yet after the election, he extended a hand of friendship and collaboration and unity. he said to me, luis, you're catholic, i'm catholic. we cannot have a permitted underclass of workers in the united states of america. that does not reflect our values as who we are. and he's working to get it done. and like him, there are dozens of other republicans that are ready to stand up. this is not a democrat or republican issue. look at the senate. in the senate, what was the first thing? there are 54 democrats in the senate. they're the majority. yet when you look at the proposal, billions of dollars were simply confiscated. you work ten year, you work 15 years, you work 20 years. you pay social security. gone. vanished. you cannot make a claim on any of those dollars. that didn't happen in 1986. under that immigration reform plan.
paul ryan ran for vice president of the united states of america. i did everything i could so he could never achieve that goal. he did everything he could so that i would never be in the majority in the house of representatives. yet after the election, he extended a hand of friendship and collaboration and unity. he said to me, luis, you're catholic, i'm catholic. we cannot have a permitted underclass of workers in the united states of america. that does not reflect our values as who we are....
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god bless the united states of america. Â forever"] Â national cable satellite corp. 2013] national captioning institute] ♪ >> today on c-span, discussion about the efforts to refwilled ♪ libya. then "washington journal" live with your phone calls and the center for american progress holds a conversation about public school districts. on c-span today the center for american progress looks at the size of american school districts. if the size is good or bad for students. we'll have live coverage beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. then the reserve officers association holds its national security summit. the topics will include veterans health care and the department defense cuts. live coverage begins at 8:00 a.m. eastern. >> i am not some sort of anti-suburb person who thinks everybody needs to live in new york city. i was very sense ti to come across as a condo-dwelling elitist of some kind. that's not why i did this book. i understand why people like suburbs. i get fed up with the daily live of new york city sometimes b
god bless the united states of america. Â forever"] Â national cable satellite corp. 2013] national captioning institute] ♪ >> today on c-span, discussion about the efforts to refwilled ♪ libya. then "washington journal" live with your phone calls and the center for american progress holds a conversation about public school districts. on c-span today the center for american progress looks at the size of american school districts. if the size is good or bad for...
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i think i took that into corporate america. i was able to work my way up to division manager at smith barney and director at merrill lynch before going back to school at night to retain my undergraduate and mba. this has come full circle because during the time that i was earning my undergraduate degree smith barney, there was unleashingher himself on wall street. i look forward to representing new yorkers and hopefullyi took that into --corporate america. i was able to work my way up at smith barney and at merrill lynch before going to school at night. this is coming during the time that i was earning my undergraduate degree at smith barney, there was eliot spitzer, unleashing his terror on wall street. i did not let him stop me then, and i refuse to let him stop me now. i am looking forward to representing new yorkers, and hopefully, i can be the only adult in this race and bring some integrity. i will try to be brief, but in closing, if i could just use a saying, "if we could actually instill conservative values along with t
i think i took that into corporate america. i was able to work my way up to division manager at smith barney and director at merrill lynch before going back to school at night to retain my undergraduate and mba. this has come full circle because during the time that i was earning my undergraduate degree smith barney, there was unleashingher himself on wall street. i look forward to representing new yorkers and hopefullyi took that into --corporate america. i was able to work my way up at smith...
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they would say, the united states of america are. it was not holding quite together. there was a fear it was holding a part. james madison's primary political goal was unity. if you keep that in mind as we go on tonight, dolley madison's work will become understandable. the second thing i would like to say is that we know the end of the story. we know this nation will be a strong nation state with a democracy and a two-party system and a strong presence. that was none of the things the founders had intended. we look back and see that time as a time of growing pains. they did not know how this would end. madison was the perfect person to help the nation ease into what it would be. >> serving as the chief executive of the nation, he brought the real concept of how he wanted the role to be carried out. how did he approach it and how did she help him? >> he was the idea guy. he was very theoretical. he and other members of the founding generation understood unity as a concept. it was their number 1 job. how do you do it? how do you bring forth unity? what dolley madison d
they would say, the united states of america are. it was not holding quite together. there was a fear it was holding a part. james madison's primary political goal was unity. if you keep that in mind as we go on tonight, dolley madison's work will become understandable. the second thing i would like to say is that we know the end of the story. we know this nation will be a strong nation state with a democracy and a two-party system and a strong presence. that was none of the things the founders...
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and freedom to walk down the streets of america without being profiled. [applause] the march is unfinished and hopefully tonight we will, among many of our nations, have a conversation about what we must do to finish the march toward justice and shared prosperity. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, arlene. it is now my pleasure to introduce to deliver us some appropriate introductory remarks mr. keith ellison, congressman keith ellison, who represents the 5th district from minnesota in the united states house of representatives. congressman ellison is a member of the house financial services committee and is providing some very diligent, progress i oversight of our nation's financial services and housing industries as well as wall street. he also serves on the house democratic steering and policy committee be, advising the entire democratic caucus on its agenda. and he's also serving as co-chair of the democratic progressive caucus and has worked diligently to make sure progressive values are at the forefront of the national conversation. but that's all
and freedom to walk down the streets of america without being profiled. [applause] the march is unfinished and hopefully tonight we will, among many of our nations, have a conversation about what we must do to finish the march toward justice and shared prosperity. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, arlene. it is now my pleasure to introduce to deliver us some appropriate introductory remarks mr. keith ellison, congressman keith ellison, who represents the 5th district from minnesota in...
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i just wish america understood. if i could tell them one thing about lucy hayes, it is that i ind it stunningly haunting how much violence she saw up close during the war. in surgery and out. not only in ohio hospitals, but going to her husband's camps where her brother was a surgeon. she was in and out of the operating room. she did post operative care. she saw people without anesthetics suffering in horiffic ways. when four soldiers, two of whom were wounded and two of whom were significantly ill, missed their train to chicago, she opened her back parlor to her house so they could stay. it makes perfect sense to me that she sued those sergeanten's stripes on -- sewed those sergeanten -- sergeant's stripes on. i would be convinced that is the least she owed that man. for what she knew he went through. >> on the note about violence -- >> there was a report a bullet went through their parlor window in columbus before they came to the white house. there was no secret service. they took it as it came. their son carried
i just wish america understood. if i could tell them one thing about lucy hayes, it is that i ind it stunningly haunting how much violence she saw up close during the war. in surgery and out. not only in ohio hospitals, but going to her husband's camps where her brother was a surgeon. she was in and out of the operating room. she did post operative care. she saw people without anesthetics suffering in horiffic ways. when four soldiers, two of whom were wounded and two of whom were significantly...
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that's america. my parents and grandparents instilled in me the midwestern values, the same values that you pass on to your children -- family and faith, humility and hardwork. and they taught me to live with honor and courage and to never, never stop fighting for what i believe in. every one of you in this room, when you think of courage and you have to take that one big step or do something that you're afraid to do, you always think of something -- someone in your family, someone you knew in your life. for me, i always think my grandpa down there in those mines and back then it was so dangerous. they would hear the whistle and everyone would run to the mine because they didn't know who was killed or hurt that day. my grandpa worked in the mines a long time. a few years ago, i met a guy at a little restaurant up there in elie. he told me he came running up to me and said his dad worked with my grandpa and then he got promoted as foreman. all of them had to radio down when the guys went to a new and
that's america. my parents and grandparents instilled in me the midwestern values, the same values that you pass on to your children -- family and faith, humility and hardwork. and they taught me to live with honor and courage and to never, never stop fighting for what i believe in. every one of you in this room, when you think of courage and you have to take that one big step or do something that you're afraid to do, you always think of something -- someone in your family, someone you knew in...
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and was there a better way, it is the way for america to act and america to lead in the world? and like so many others in my generation, vietnam really was the impetus that opened up the world to us, even though i never got there. i didn't serve but it came right into our hometown. and it forced us to look beyond the atlantic and pacific, and appreciate that they complicated world. and when you go into the china shop, you've got to be careful when you throw your weight around. 40 years later, vietnam still recalls for me the ultimate purpose of diplomacy, and that's what we are looking at this week at chautauqua. can work amicably with other countries, with other religions with other people? what's the best way to avoid the war and conflict that we've seen in our country over the last 10 years? are we capable of meeting the difficult challenge, and it's an important one for all of us to matter what our faith is to reflect upon, can we deliver peace? that's our job. all of us. we know in our hearts it may never be possible. as the ancient greeks put it, may never be possible as
and was there a better way, it is the way for america to act and america to lead in the world? and like so many others in my generation, vietnam really was the impetus that opened up the world to us, even though i never got there. i didn't serve but it came right into our hometown. and it forced us to look beyond the atlantic and pacific, and appreciate that they complicated world. and when you go into the china shop, you've got to be careful when you throw your weight around. 40 years later,...
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that's a america's story. there is something in our dna about these immigrants who have the courage to get up and come here. really to fight against great odds, to succeed you. and thank goodness they did. that's who we are today, and we should celebrate it. we shouldn't apologize for. we had to build on it to make us an even stronger nation into century. thanks, tom your. [applause] >> thank you, dick. thank you. dick, thank you very much for that, and thank you for your great leadership. folks, i want to reassure senator durbin, and anyone else who may be tuned in on this, that we iowans, we are a welcoming people. we are a compassionate and caring people. [applause] >> we do not believe in characterizing people with hateful, spiteful, degrading language. we believe that every human being has worth, and we believe life arewant to come here to not criminals. they are people who want to build a better life for themselves and their families, and we had to be finding a way to help them do that here in america, a
that's a america's story. there is something in our dna about these immigrants who have the courage to get up and come here. really to fight against great odds, to succeed you. and thank goodness they did. that's who we are today, and we should celebrate it. we shouldn't apologize for. we had to build on it to make us an even stronger nation into century. thanks, tom your. [applause] >> thank you, dick. thank you. dick, thank you very much for that, and thank you for your great...
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i think that's what keeps america free. is that individual citizens are passionate about that and their series about that. at the same time you've got to see the abuses, you've got to know where they are. and i don't think that communism we lost our freedom. if we had we wouldn't be having this discussion in the shim on c-span. you know, is still a pretty remarkable country. it's not china. it's not russia. it's not some third world dictatorship. its institutions -- you mention effort called the fbi case, and they lost that case. [inaudible] >> it's on the tip of the lost the initial round. we will see what happens. i think congress will probably editing and pass a law to that effect. because nobody likes that without a warrant. [inaudible] >> the attorney general is under contempt of course. [applause] sadly we didn't win the presidential election but we don't get to appoint the attorney general. [inaudible] >> i'm sorry? [inaudible] >> we have a lot republican candidates running. but anyway, yes or. >> let them get a mic
i think that's what keeps america free. is that individual citizens are passionate about that and their series about that. at the same time you've got to see the abuses, you've got to know where they are. and i don't think that communism we lost our freedom. if we had we wouldn't be having this discussion in the shim on c-span. you know, is still a pretty remarkable country. it's not china. it's not russia. it's not some third world dictatorship. its institutions -- you mention effort called...
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this is true as much of the recent past, as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned this time around. first, there are people you have to talk to. [laughter] and while i was blessed from beginning to end from having some passing people to talk to you about joe kennedy, including large numbers of kennedys, i must prefer working from written documents to listen to people talk and try to figure out what's real, what's imagined what they know, what they think they know because someone told them for what they think they know but they don't know at all. the other difficulty about writing about our recent past is that it's not always easy to establish one's distance from it. to construct passion of the past that is so close to us, and yet this is what historians have to do. our job is to complicate, to take apart our commonsense view of the recent past, to interrogate what we think we know, to demystify them to move beyond the clichÉd about winners and losers, saints and sinners, about the wisdom and courage of our fo
this is true as much of the recent past, as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned this time around. first, there are people you have to talk to. [laughter] and while i was blessed from beginning to end from having some passing people to talk to you about joe kennedy, including large numbers of kennedys, i must prefer working from written documents to listen to people talk and try to figure out what's real, what's imagined what...
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i have also lived half my life in south america. a lot about bolivar, but i have learned just from listening to you a number of things, including the wonderful stint in colombia and the battle. we hear a lot to commend it irritates me as someone who loves this to hear about the late departed executive to the president of venezuela who used this human bolivar as a tool to badly govern a wonderful people and a wonderful country. to what extent he lived a long time in venezuela, to what extent was hugo chavez distorting history and just doing their usual grab that he did, work is there a serious historical responsible basis for using bolivar as part of the venezuelan package? >> thank you for that question. a very good question. there is very little. and think about this in the epilogue. a very little to compare. except for the thing that everybody since bolivar died, and he died as -- absolutely destitute. he -- the data very rich man. but bolivar it is amazing to see people on the right use them. people on the left use in for hug
i have also lived half my life in south america. a lot about bolivar, but i have learned just from listening to you a number of things, including the wonderful stint in colombia and the battle. we hear a lot to commend it irritates me as someone who loves this to hear about the late departed executive to the president of venezuela who used this human bolivar as a tool to badly govern a wonderful people and a wonderful country. to what extent he lived a long time in venezuela, to what extent...
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wrong for america. republicans have good a guess about how we can use market-based principles to actually drive down health care costs and to make health care better in quality and give people more choice, not less choice like what this president is doing to average americans with obamacare. and, finally, the defense of our nation. look at what is happening around the world right now. jennifer talk about in gaza. we need republicans indiana state senate. we need to hold people accountable for what happened to those four brave americans. [applause] and i can tell you that i'm not going to give up this fight. for the truth and to hold people accountable to make sure this never happens again. [applause] we can say the same thing for the irs, that the irs would target americans for their viewpoints. so absolutely wrong. and so this fight that you are engaged in, to not only here in new hampshire, but across the country, to make sure that we can win back the majority in the united states senate in 2014, and
wrong for america. republicans have good a guess about how we can use market-based principles to actually drive down health care costs and to make health care better in quality and give people more choice, not less choice like what this president is doing to average americans with obamacare. and, finally, the defense of our nation. look at what is happening around the world right now. jennifer talk about in gaza. we need republicans indiana state senate. we need to hold people accountable for...
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easy spanish coming through latin america. portuguese and the lighter yellow-green. google search, think of it in an internet way whether it's facebook or twitter or whatever. people are online. people are networked. this has never happened before at this level. so it means we can really think differently. about how we approach these problems. and that we are really actually available to each other in ways that was never true in history to solve problems together and to collaborate in extraordinary ways. and so i want to flip a couple of images as we start start ofs that show that. sometimes i call it a jason c. things have become adjacent are next to each other digitally that whenever a jason before. so for example, this is a wonderful group of entrepreneurial youth in afghanistan, about 80 miles from the iran border. they just finished a computer science undergrad degrees and they're here founding 60 congress. this is a startup incubator. the same as we have in silicon valley, or in d.c. there's a new -- that's where the techies gather. so here, this wasn't there b
easy spanish coming through latin america. portuguese and the lighter yellow-green. google search, think of it in an internet way whether it's facebook or twitter or whatever. people are online. people are networked. this has never happened before at this level. so it means we can really think differently. about how we approach these problems. and that we are really actually available to each other in ways that was never true in history to solve problems together and to collaborate in...
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but we are foreigners in a strange land this is true as much as the recent past as a this of colonial america or 12 century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned this time around. there are people you have to talk to. [laughter] and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having fascinating people to talk to eric tweeting the large numbers of kennedys, i must prefer working from written documents to listening to people talk and trying to figure out what is real, imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them. what they think they know but they don't know what all. the other is writing about our recent past is is that always easy to establish distance from it. to construct the pastness of the past that is so close to us and yet this is what historians have to do. our job is to complicate, take apart our common sense here of the recent past, interrogate what we think we know, demystified, demythologize, move beyond the cliche is about when airs at losers, saint seine centers, the wisdom and courage of our forefathers to my especially
but we are foreigners in a strange land this is true as much as the recent past as a this of colonial america or 12 century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned this time around. there are people you have to talk to. [laughter] and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having fascinating people to talk to eric tweeting the large numbers of kennedys, i must prefer working from written documents to listening to people talk and trying to figure out what is real,...
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because the europeans were just fascinated with america. they said, here's a nation barely 50 years old, already competing with us on virtually every level. that's impossible. how could a fledging nation be doing that? he wanted to come here and dissect and see what the heck was going on over here, and while he was at it, he said, let me look at the school system, and he was blown away, anybody finishing the second grade was literate. he could find a mountain man who read the newspaper and could have a decent political discussion with them. he'd never seen anything like that before. you know, go and to some of the museums and look at some of the letters written by people on the frontier in the wild west. you'd think a college professor wrote the letters, the vocabulary and grammar the way it was done. there was a lot more emphasis in times past. if you really want to be blown away, get a hold of the 6th grade exit exam from the 1830s. there are questions in the book, "america the beautiful," from app exit exam. see if you can past the test.
because the europeans were just fascinated with america. they said, here's a nation barely 50 years old, already competing with us on virtually every level. that's impossible. how could a fledging nation be doing that? he wanted to come here and dissect and see what the heck was going on over here, and while he was at it, he said, let me look at the school system, and he was blown away, anybody finishing the second grade was literate. he could find a mountain man who read the newspaper and...
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they asked why health insurance is tied to employers in america. legacy an historical that grew up by accident in world war ii. there were price controls and employers were not allowed to give employees raises but they could offer health insurance. depend dynamic where it has been associated with employers. the idea behind the affordable care act was to work with the system that we had. it was impossible to overhaul the system. the act took the insurance companies that we have and try to work around that. a lot of people share your opinion that that is not an ideal way. raised the point about more --paying more per employee for smaller employers. one of the ideas behind the affordable care act is to narrow poolsap by having risk for small employers. this is what the small employer exchanges that are opening in 2014 are supposed to accomplish. host: these are the ones that will be pushed off by a year. guest: they are still going to open next year. the choice that you have when employeesoffer your will not be as extensive. the idea was to have a loo
they asked why health insurance is tied to employers in america. legacy an historical that grew up by accident in world war ii. there were price controls and employers were not allowed to give employees raises but they could offer health insurance. depend dynamic where it has been associated with employers. the idea behind the affordable care act was to work with the system that we had. it was impossible to overhaul the system. the act took the insurance companies that we have and try to work...
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was there a better way or different way for america to act or lead in the world? like so many others in my generation it was the impetus that opened the world even though i never got there. i did not serve but it came right into our home town and forced us to look beyond the pacific to appreciate that is a complicated world when you go into the china shop you have to be careful when you throw your weight around. 40 years later vietnam's still recalls for me the ultimate purpose of diplomacy. . . s. ancient greeks put it it will never be possible they set this tame the savageness of man that we know we have to try. our path will be eliminated via phrase robert kennedy used in his brief and tragic run for the presidency in 1968. he said that one of the purposes of our country must must be andes or tennyson's words alfred lord tennyson to seek a newer world, to seek a newer world from the broken world that we inherited after those trials and tribulations of the 1960s. that's not very different from some of the challenges that we inherit here in 2013. for me that's th
was there a better way or different way for america to act or lead in the world? like so many others in my generation it was the impetus that opened the world even though i never got there. i did not serve but it came right into our home town and forced us to look beyond the pacific to appreciate that is a complicated world when you go into the china shop you have to be careful when you throw your weight around. 40 years later vietnam's still recalls for me the ultimate purpose of diplomacy. ....